netdev - Re: [patch net-next repost 1/3] idr: Use unsigned long instead of int

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Date:   Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:58:53 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     Chris Mi <chrism@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        mawilcox@...rosoft.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next repost 1/3] idr: Use unsigned long instead of
 int

On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 12:53 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:

> rhashtable is unnecesary big hammer for this. IDR is nice fit for
> this purpose.

Obviously IDR does not fit, since you have to change its ABI.

If rhashtable does not fit this, then I wonder why we spent so many days
of work adding it in the kernel.